[tex-live] Tex-live unable to install in Solaris 10 x386

Norbert Preining preining at logic.at
Wed Sep 2 10:57:07 CEST 2009


On Mi, 02 Sep 2009, Norbert Preining wrote:
> On Di, 01 Sep 2009, Blai Bonet wrote:
> >   Installing [1057/1550, time/total: 40:07/01:55:17]: pgf [3368k]
> >   tar: ././@LongLink: typeflag 'L' not recognized, converting to regular file
> >   untarring /usr/local/texlive/2008/temp/pgf.tar failed, please retry
> >   Un-tarring /usr/local/texlive/2008/temp/pgf.tar did not succeed.
> >   Installation failed.
> >   Rerunning the installer will try to restart the installation.
> >   Or you can restart by running the installer with:
> >     install-tl --profile installation.profile [EXTRA-ARGS]
> >   running post install action for bin-texdoc
> >   running post install action for bin-texlive
> 
> How on earth did the program continue here???

I tried the same by creating a corrupt .tar file, compressed it with
xz, and started the installation. And as expected:
/--------
| Installing to: /home/norbert/tlbla/2009
| Installing [01/55, time/total: ??:??/??:??]: amsfonts [4993k]
| Installing [02/55, time/total: 00:06/00:08]: apalike [10k]
| tar: This does not look like a tar archive
| tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors
| untarring /home/norbert/tlbla/2009/temp/apalike.tar failed, please retry
| Un-tarring /home/norbert/tlbla/2009/temp/apalike.tar did not succeed.
| Installation failed.
| Rerunning the installer will try to restart the installation.
| Or you can restart by running the installer with:
|   install-tl --profile installation.profile [EXTRA-ARGS]
| Writing log file to current working directory.
| $
\--------

Can you tell us which version of the install-tl program you are using?
Please call
	install-tl --version
and tell us the revision number at the end.

Best wishes

Norbert

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